Kimberly McLarin

Kim McLarin is the author of three critically-acclaimed novels and four nonfiction works, including the bibliomemoir Bookmarked:James Baldwin’s Another Country. Her most recent work, Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed, was awarded 2024 NonFiction Honors by the Massachusetts Book Awards. McLarin’s nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, The Washington Post, Slate, the New England Review, The Sewanee Review, The Boston Globe, The Sun Magazine and other publications, and been twice listed in Best American Essays. Her short fiction has appeared in Confrontation, Solstice, Calaloo and other publications.

McLarin is a former staff writer for The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirerand theAssociated Press. She is a frequent public speaker and panelist and former host of the Emmy-Award winning show Basic Black, Boston’s long-running television program devoted to African-American themes on WGBH.